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APPLlCATlON FILED MAYZS. 1912.

Patented Apr. 25, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 191%.

Application filed May 25, 1912. Serial No. 699,735.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. SHEWRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Tmprovements in Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates .to apparel and has for an object to provide a tie that can be easily and quickly attached to a collar and arranged to form a neat and effective bow.

The invention embodies, among other features, a plurality of tie members for connection with a collar, one tie member being preferably longer than'the other and the said tie members being connectible to form a neat and effective bow.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a collar showing the tie members connected thereto and in untied position; Fig. 2 is a similar perspective view of a collar showing the tie members arranged to form the completed bow; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of.

the tie members; Fig. 4. is a perspective view of a modified form of my device, showing a fragmentary view of a collar, the attaching member being secured to the collar, whereas in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the attaching member is secured to the tie member; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the tie member used in connection with the device as disclosed in Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of a standlng collar showing my device used in connection therewith, the tie member being in untied position.

Referring to the views, and more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, I employ a collar 10, of the turn-over type, the flaps 11 of the collar being provided with buttonholes 12 at the lower foremost extremities thereof, the mentioned collar 10 being attached to the neckband of the shirt in the usual manher so that the buttonholes 12 will lie in substantially the same horizontal plane, the buttonholes being preferably made vertical, as shown.

A plurality of tie members 13 and 14 are employed for connection with the collar 10,

the said tie members each consisting of a body 15, preferably made of cloth such as silk, the said body being reduced *at the inner end thereof and having attached at the said reduced end an attaching member 16, the mentioned attaching member being secured to the tie member to extend laterally or at right angles to the longitudinal plane of the tie member, as shown. The tie member 13 1s preferably made a trifle longer than the tie member 14 and the tie members are mounted on the collar 10 by passing the attaching members 16 of the tie members through the buttonholes 12 in the collar, the attaching members being now arranged between the body of the collar and the outer flaps 11 thereof so that the attaching members will not be visible to the casual observer. The tie members are now interknotted to form a bow 17, shown in Fig. '2, this bow being formed in the same manner that the usual bow of an ordinary bow tie is formed, it being readily seen that by attaching the tie members in the manner mentioned, to the collar 10 and forming the tie members to produce the bow 17, the completed bow will lie adjacent the lower forward extremities of the flaps l1 and will be rigidly held in the mentioned position and to the collar 10 by the attaching members 16, the particular position of the finished bow 17 relatively to the collar 10 being adapted to retain the edges 18 of the collar in substantially parallel relation and prevent the lower forward extremities of the flaps from separating so as to destroy the uniformity of the collar and relatively incline the edges 18 thereof, it being further seen that by placing the tie members 13 and 14 at the lower forward extremities of the flaps 11, the collar will be retained in proper engage nent with the neckband, it bein well known that when the forward ends of the flaps at their lower ends move apart, the sides of the collar move upwardly, thus causing great inconvenience to the wearer and further causing the collar to assume an ungainly and awkward position on the neckband of the shirt.

In Fig. 4 I disclose a modified form of my device in which instead of forming a buttonhole in the forward lower extremity of each flap 11 of the collar 10, I secure an attaching member 19 to each flap at the point mentioned, a tie member 20 being provided for connection with each attaching member, the said tie member being substantially of the same shape as the tie members 13 and 14. with the exception that instead of secur- 7 ing the attaching member. to the tie member 2, it being readily seen that in Figs. 1, 2

and 3 the attaching members are mounted on they tie members with the buttonholes formed in the flaps, Whereas in Figs. 4 and 5 the attaching members are connected to the flaps of the collar and the buttonholes are formed in the tie members.

In Fig. 6 I disclose one of the tie members 13 employed in connection with a. standing collar 22, this collar being of the dress type. In order to permit of more easily connecting the tie members when the same are used in connection with a standing collar, the buttonhole 23 in each flap of the standing collar is preferably inclined, thus permitting of more easily connecting and securing the tie members in a bow, the tie members being formed and arranged the same as the tie members shown in Fig. 3.

Although I have shown a button like attaching member in connection with the tie members and collars described, it will be readily understood that in place of the button member any ordinary form of bar-like member may be employed for connecting and retaining the tie members in engagement with the collars, it being, however, necessary that the attaching member be arranged to'extend at right angles or laterally to the longitudinal plane or axis of the tie members.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A turn down collar, said collar having its outer folds at its front provided adjacent the meeting corners thereof with relatively small narrow slits disposed substantially at right angles to the under edges thereof, and a pair of tie sections, each of said sections being gradually reduced in transverse width to provide a pointed terminal, and a headed stud secured to the pointed terminal of each section and adapted to be introduced in either of said slits.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VILLIAM M. SHEWRY.

Witnesses JOHN J. DUN-DON, MONTE WILSON. 

